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Originally Posted by mrgerlo
Hello
Im in the same situation, 3rd year grad student and I want to get a decent pdf reader for engineering papers, with good equation handling capabilities.
I am wondering, greeneggs, did you finally made up your mind??? Which device sis you get? are you happy with your purchase???
Just a follow up....
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Just bought a Kindle DX for our graduate student son. He's still in the evaluation mode, not quite sure if it'll work out or not. The DX works fairly well with PDF files in that he can review them as an overview in portrait mode, then use the automatic screen rotation (the DX has an orientation sensor) to switch to landscape mode to read with a decent font size. Two column PDF files aren't quite as easy as you have to read down and then hit back twice to get back to the top of the page for the next column, but if you hit it twice quickly it goes back relatively quickly. Also, he says that much of the stuff that he reads from arXiv is formatted by the author and isn't usually in two column format yet.
At first he loved it for the easy-on-the-eyes eink screen, then he started thinking about returning it because he can't view a figure on one page while reading about it on another page, and now he's back to thinking about keeping it...
The biggest disappointment with the DX itself is the fact that the browser doesn't allow direct download of PDF files, so he can't just go to arXiv directly to download them without the assistance of his laptop.